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1934 Certificate U
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A young mother anxious to better her situation seduces the man who is helping her son. Read more

Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey
Director Lowell Sherman
Genres Drama

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Born To Be Bad

A young mother anxious to better her situation seduces the man who is helping her son.

Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey
Director Lowell Sherman
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 59 mins
Certificate Certificate U
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 01 Aug 2005
Production year: 1934
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (2) of Born To Be Bad

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Unfortunately for RKO, Joan Fontaine was put on this earth to be timid and twee on screen, if not in real life, and acting bad did not come easily. She fails to convince in this flat drama, playing an ambitious, callous woman who arrives in San Francisco determined to have it all her own way. Robert Ryan and Zachary Scott look unconvinced as the men caught up in her wiles. The publicity people obviously knew they had a struggle selling it when they described Fontaine's character as “a cross between Lucretia Borgia and Peg o' My Heart”!

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Tentative bad girl novelette, just about passable.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Dreadful

    Can't think of one redeeming feature.....,

    [Radio Times review appears to be for a different film, as I don't recall ever seeing the lovely Miss Fontaine in this picture. Now I know how this 'junk mail' of a film ended up in my post]

      • Edgar Jephcote from Notts, UK
      • Posted 11 Jul 2007 09:34

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  • Rated - 2 stars

    Psychologically warped!

    Not a classic but you wont see many more psychologically warped films. Not one straightforward character in the film.

      • A customer from Shrewsbury, England
      • Posted 18 Mar 2006 16:56

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